[phone rings]

[Lady:] Ragtop records, may I help you?

[Fly:] Can I speak to Fo?

[Lady:] I moment please, he's around.

[4-Tay:] Yo, wassup?

[Fly:] Wassup, Fo?  I know you finished that cut for the radio.

[4-Tay:] As a matter of fact Fly I just finished it baby boy, don't worry 

about nothin, I'll be around.



[4-Tay]

Regardless if I'm chillin backstage or on tour

With my homie Young Fly even Al B. Sure

Never hesitate to call me whenever I'm done

Cause homie I'm real and I'm always true to my loved ones

Too many wakes and funerals full of tears

You say there's something on your mind well here I'm all ears

Cause nobody thinking about the funk that you're choosin it

A lot of my homies stuck in the pen for life for losin it

Call up your folks you keep thinkin about home

Recorder keeps a peep and there's a block on the phone

And all of this is enough to make a brother's nerves bad

Reminds me of a sitution that I once had

Spent that spent this endless relentless tremendous women on my jock

And don't nobody mindin business

He say she say throwin salt about it

And chooses to talk about you cause there's no one else to talk about

Talk about the show and the flow and all the clout

Then be real with yourself and talk about and turned it out

It's not hard to compete when his name is poppin

A scared man can never win that's why I stay clockin

Fools be huffin and puffin don't wanna see me about nothin I'm down

And if you ever need me Fly I'll be around



[chorus: sampled from the Spinners "I'll Be Around]

Whenever you call me I'll be there

Whenever you want me I'll be there

Whenever you need me I'll be there

I'll be around



[talking]

Cause I'll be around you know I love you boy



Life ain't based on peaches and cream

This new generation lost a whole lot of dreams

Future doctors, producers and mothers

The list goes on but now we killin our brothers

And if we killin our brothers that means we're killin our own kind

These kids is watchin now it goes to their mind

Rat tat a tat cause you got a gat 

Then they want a gat you livin like that?

Moms ain't cookin she worked the week straight

If anything she's the one that deserves a hot plate

The ghetto the ghetto ain't nothin to dream about

Tryin to get out now that's somethin to think about

Fools might disagree but I'm a stay sucka free

Now I'm so black so strong they can't fade me

Blacks are blacks worst enemy there's still no remedy

You got me for a grip do you call yourself kin of me?

Jealousy envy I see it in your eyes

Tell me what's wrong with seeing a black man rise

I keep it funky it's pretty hard to miss it now is it explicit

A message for the mind and the moral of statistics

So I'm doin what we call a roll call

Talkin about the ones who won't rap then take a downfall

I spit the street life and then I go underground

You silly it's called versatility and I'll be around



[chorus]



[Talking]

Yeah all you bustas yeah I was down but I'll be around



Things are gettin crucial you gotta exercise your mind

Or learn about life before you're left behind

But how you gonna get it right when you're not doin right

When you get mad all you want is a gunfight

This tension causes a gang of madness

Now you want funk that results to sadness

Sadness results to a lot of revenge

And you're so called friends really ain't you're friends

So how do you know who you're able to trust

If you think about the past look what happened to us

I never trust no one I only trust myself

Or I would've been a victim like everyone else

In friendship or hardship whenever you need me

Just give me a call G I won't deceive thee

These fools be shakin best believe they're fakin

Just tryin to get a grip of all the money you're makin

This ain't race a mind is a terrible thing to waste

I drop the rap and J drops the bass

To the flow cause ain't nobody get with Fo

I'm a down young brother comin straight outta Frisco

Droppin a message out of love to your town

Love your brothers and sisters and I'll be around



[chorus]